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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would classify both my husband and myself as introverts. We get along with our nerdy friends but they're not close in this area. But we never grew up in a social/partying type of environment either. We enjoy spending time with our kids and our immediate family, but meeting with friends once maybe every 2-3 months would be perfectly fine with us as we get our adult conversation time with others while we're at work. With kids in elementary school. We've had to adjust to going to more sports events, birthday parties, invited to more neighborhood social events, which have helped us to be more social and I think it's a good thing.

However, each time I have to go to any social event it hypes up my anxiety. I always have to feel like I have to be "on" like at an interview, to be interesting, etc. I know likely the other people don't care one way or the other, but I thinks somethings we might come off rude/snobby as we tend to not chat for extended amount of times during some of those events. Sometimes it's because I honestly don't know what to say as we don't have that much in common outside of talking about kid problems or I just feel like what I have to say really won't be that interesting so no need to waste their time.

So question to other introverts, what do you do to help yourself be more comfortable in social settings? [/quote]

We are introverts but we also enjoy seeing neighbors and visiting and those types of things. I agree with PP, being an extroverts in an introvert neighborhood sucks. That is where we are now. We are not extroverts, but the people around us are really unfriendly and keep to themselves.

As for social settings, we don't try to be interesting. I also hate talking about the kids because it becomes competitive. We talk about books or movies or "where did you grow up", that kind of stuff. And we make sure we have quiet time ALONE when we get home. :)[/quote]

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